The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-30

which IS strictly orthodox ana conventional |
body At the last meeting over which he presided,
another surgical mugwump, DR.. Francke Il. |
Bosworth, exhibited saw with which to i'm |
prove noses. Doctors forfeit their professional |
standing and get turned out of the medical asso- !
Citations, you know, if they patent or |
keep secret any discovery. So DR.. Bosworth |
divulged his instrument for reconstructing |
nasal deformities. 1t was simply very fine, |
thin saw, fixed in the handle that it could be |
inserted in the nose and there operated. With |
it, he explained, he could saw out portions of
the septuj tum, which is the gristle part of the
nose, and thus reduce the protuberance. OF
course. his idea was to thus use it for the cure
of cases where malformation interfered with the
natural functions of the organ, and he had oper-
ated with it successfully IN numerous instances
/ asked him if he wouldn't apply it for the mere
sake of improving the shape
81 hardly think that would be professional"
he answered. 81
''But it would be practicablep
"Undoubtedly."
'And no disfguring scar would mark the re-
sult9"
'Not any,"
Would you perform this operation if you
deemed it necessary as prevention of mad
nessl"
''Yes."
'.An right, then. Every girl with big,
crooked nose will go crazy if refused an opera
ton that would transform her from ugliness to
beauty"
But the doctors are sometimes unreasonable
with women. Mrs. Hicks-Lord, widow of
millionaire, and herself dashingly handsome
and witty matron, has returned to be central
figure in New York society. At Mrs. Marshall
O. Roberts's great ball, this week, she wore
low-waisted and no-sleeved dress, like nearly
every other belle present. She encountered DR..
Ely, who had been treating her for cough
"This is rather imprudent" he said, referring
| to the scant raiment.
'Not at ALL" she responded, ''see the fires I've
kirdled all around me-"
So she had Full five hundred diamonds
| blazed and flashed warmly in her hair, around
4 her neck, across her bosom. along her arms and
in her ears and on her hands. Could woman
| be chilly when thus afame2
| 1t was 3 girl equally frank and witty who,
meeting friend of her own sex in the street.
| exchanged criticism and compliment on their re-
| spective states of hesh
| II have lost nine pounds by banting since
saw you," said the latter chatterer "Why don't
you try it9 I'm sure you are fatter than when /
| saw you in the fall"
mo, you're mistaken, weigh less than did. y
| was the reply
But you surely look broader across the back. I"
''True. It's this cloak. l was bound to have
| one complete plaid betwxt my shoulders, don't
you sect and SO had to pad myself out for it. I"
Summing has had its day in New York. and
is now a toothless, gray-headed and tottering
| craze, employed at very rare intervals for an
evening by somebody who likes the fun and
wants to repeat it, or somebody who hasn't had
the courage to try it before. There is one young
woman in this city, belonging to the latter class,
| who for the last few days has been wishing that
she had never heard of stunning. She tried it
recently, and it took away all enjoyment Of life.
She is a young woman who never does thing
until it has been tried by everyone else in her
az Acho &c <lrs
proper thing. That is why she put off her slum-
ming expedition until this winter. If she had
undertaken it when the craze was in its prim e
and everyone went Summing as the regulation
thing to do. she would be happy yet. AS it s,
she is sunk into melancholy SO deep that it is
proof against daily visits to candy store, or
the promise of new pearl necklace. She is the
possessor OF a bonnet for which she paid sixty
dollars. 1t was wonderful, stunning,
Frenchy. the very climax OF the miner's
art. When she bought it madame told her with
ecstatic little shrugs that 1t was straight from
Paris, that the eyes of customers had never
rested on it, that she certainly would never see its
counterpart here, and that she would not be an
noyed by repetition of it even if she We're to
60 to Paris ITSELF because it was work of art,
the inspiration of a moment, which the artist
creator could never duplicate. So she bought
the bonnet, and her heart has been singing a
song of joy ever since. Well, she went slum-
ming-thatis. properly accompanied chaperoned
and guided, she started to go. But she thought
she would like to begin by going down through
Division street to see the milliner shops there.
That street is an Institution in itself, as unique
as anything to be seen in the whole city of New
York. 1t has the flavor of the Bowery, the
'peesness" shrewdness of Baxter street. and an
airiness and pcturesqueness all its own. II
is full of milliner shops. One after another, fol-
block after block, there is nothing but bic
show windows filled with the most gor
i geous concoctions of ribbons and feathers. Cases
? stand before the doors filled with holiday hats
| wit Hv- xpip md hon hill
up to astounding heights. And before each door
stands woman to inveigle customers. If a
woman in passing by. turns wistful eye half
| way toward the window, the door guardian is al
her side in an instant, ringing all tho possible
changes upon an invitation to step inside, and
, buzzing in her ear until the girl at the nexi
shop-door takes her up
MY young friend had heard of this UNIQUE
place. and thought she would like to see it. They
sauntered through it. and her heart was filled
| with tender pity for the poor creatures wht
!, would wear all those dreadful things and thinl
! them nice, while her thoughts now and ther
Q turned to that love of bonnet lying at home il
its tin-lined box, and she was happy. Sudden
lv, right there before her eyes, in the showes
!, and vulgarest one of the windows, was the exac
b | reproduction Of her pride and joy. And on on
. of the strings was placard announcing. in BIZ
letters. "Ths magnificent bonnet only s5" o
. course it was made OF cheap materials
i and was to her bonnet as the chromi
K est kind of a chrome is to q master
:, original. But it was lower-class counterfeit
Of her own beloved bonnet, and at little dis
tance only practiced eye could tell the differ
ence. While she stood and stared at it the gil
came up ''That's stylish bonnet, mum
!, Won't you come in and look at it? It's awful
u cheap You couldn't buy it anywhere else 70
1t less'n three times that money. Better come j
h en- try it on. num- 1t 'ud just suit your styl
;. of beauty" The young swell didn't go yer
o much further on her Summing expedition. Sh
went home and cried, and would not be CON
% forted. She has had no pleasure in life sine
:, that night. The bonnet reposes in its satin cas-
~ unworn, and its owner has lost faith in mill
o ners "How can l ever wear it." she wall
le when / fully expect every day to see one
; the servants going out with that dreadful car
- cature of the dear thing2 How can ever tru.
"a a milliner againq Oh. dear, shall never hay
g another minutes peace about my bopnet as lor
= | 40 f'l;va CLARA BELLE